History of the Gameplay of Pokemon: From Pocket Monster to Pokemon

Much as happens with many other words and phrases borrowed from English, the Japanese name for the series, Pocket Monsters, became contracted into "Pockemon" during the development of the original games, likely as much for convenience when referring to it as to save on screen real estate, considering the small size of the Game Boy's screen. The official romanization of "Pockemon" at this time was derived from the contraction of Pocket and Monster, and can be seen explicitly in Primeape Goes Bananas, even in the dub. The "Pokémon" name used today came about during the translation of the games for an English audience during 1997 and 1998. Whereas in Japan, Pocket Monsters was easily able to be trademarked, the release in America would prove difficult had this name been used, due to the unrelated Monster in my Pocket franchise. Thus, an alternate romanization of the contraction was used, with an acute accent over the e to indicate its specific pronunciation, poh-kay-mahn. Despite this issue, however, the fact that Pokémon is short for Pocket Monsters has been referenced in English, with an NPC in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum asking the player what Pokémon is short for after thinking about the name of the Pokétch, itself a contraction, as well as on the back of the DVD set containing the first, second, and third movies. Franchise

Main article: History of PokémonPokémon as a series was originally conceived by Satoshi Tajiri, as a way to instill in children of the modern, more urbanized Japan the same enjoyment that he felt as a young boy collecting insects near his hometown of Machida. Initially Capsule Monsters, CapuMon for short, Tajiri pitched the series to Nintendo due to the inspiration he drew from the link cable, picturing an insect crawling across it between two Game Boy systems.

Charizard's Red and Green sprite
With help from Shigeru Miyamoto, the series began development, with the concepts of the original games, Pokémon Red and Green, going...

...Pokemon: Gotta Catch ‘em all!
“Prepare for trouble. And make it double. To protect the world from devastation, to unite all people within our nation, to denounce the evils of truth and love, to extend our reach to the stars above.” This is one of the striking lines in the Pokemon series that made a huge hit not only for kids but also for those people who are young at heart. It has left its mark in the TV industry, gaming industry, even in books, action figures, stuff toys, trading cards and many others. Pokemon has been known globally.
My addiction to pokemon started when I was in grade 2 when my tita gave me a present. It was a set of pokemon cards. At first, I really have no idea how to play this. But after my cousin introduced the steps in playing, I got so interested that I try other pokemon games like pokemon gold. Up till now, I am still active in collecting pokemon items and playing computer games all about pokemon. So, in order to satisfy my hunger for more pokemon stuff, I searched more about it. I found out that pokemon was the idea of Mr. Satoshi Tajiri.
Satoshi was born on August 28, 1965 in Tokyo. His father was a Nissan car salesman and his mother was a housewife. As a child, he enjoyed collecting insects as a hobby. And by that, his playmates call him Dr. Bug. It was his dream to...

...﻿WebQuest: Mesoamerican History Natasha Winata
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Now that you have learned a little bit about the va
rious cultures of Mesoamerica, you will now
complete this WebQuest assignment to explore these cultures in depth. Download and complete
the
Mesoamerican History WebQuest Worksheet
. Use the web links provided to learn more about
Mesoamerica.
Please submit your completed worksheet to the
WebQuest: Mesoamerican History
assignment
link for grading.
WORKSHEET
The history of Mesoamerica is divided into different periods beginning with the Olmec period.
Navigate the websites listed before each question
to learn more about the government, culture,
and social structure of Mesoamerica, and then answer the questions.
Directions:
Follow each of the links below and answer the following questions. Submit your
completed WebQuest worksheet to the
Webquest: Mesoamerican History
assignment
link for
grading.
Timeframe ...
List the year each period began and ended.
(8 points)
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(If the link breaks, use the following keywords in
an online search engine to locate it: elbalero
history of Mesoamerica)
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Olmec
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1200 BC – 1000 BC
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Formative or Preclassic Maya
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1800 BC – 200 AD
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Classic Maya
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200 – 800 AD
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...education” they think of it as “health education, safety education, athletics, recreation, dance education, and so on”. It may sometimes be referred to as physical training or gym class and mainly is taught in grades kindergarten all to the way up to your senior year in high-school in the United States. The history of physical education dates way back to the Greek and Roman times and has slowly evolved into what it is now today. There is a long tradition that goes along with physical education and many events and people have helped influence it over the years and it has now developed into a profession in America.
Some of the earliest influences on physical education were that of the Roman and Greeks. The Greek culture had a major focus on physical education and their education was divided into two key elements. One was “gymnastics and the other was “music.” Gymnastics was what people consider today as a regular gym class where sports and games were played. Music was all of the other academic subjects. So they had a big emphasis on physical education. Greek boys were encouraged to become athletes and later on participate in Olympic Games.
The Romans were different from the Greeks in the sense that they really did not make up their own philosophies. Their empire was built through the wars that they won, and they would adopt the culture of those they conquered if it would benefit them. Military training had always been important to Roman...

...Pokémon (ポケモン Pokemon?, /ˈpoʊkeɪmɒn/ poh-kay-mon[1][2]) is a media franchise published and owned by Japanese video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second-most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's own Mario franchise.[3] Pokémon properties have since been merchandised into anime, manga, trading cards, toys, books, and other media. The franchise celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2006,[4] and as of 28 May 2010, cumulative sales of the video games (including home console versions, such as the "Pikachu" Nintendo 64) have reached more than 200 million copies.[5] In November 2005, 4Kids Entertainment, which had managed the non-game related licensing of Pokémon, announced that it had agreed not to renew the Pokémon representation agreement. Pokémon USA Inc. (now The Pokémon Company International), a subsidiary of Japan's Pokémon Co., now oversees all Pokémon licensing outside of Asia.[6]
The name Pokémon is the romanized contraction of the Japanese brand PocketMonsters (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?).[7] The term Pokémon, in addition to referring to the...

...Your personal modest proposal
Using Swift’s piece as a model, write your own “modest proposal.” This
assignment allows you to imitate the premise and structure of one of the
most famous ironic/satirical pieces in English while at the same time giving
you the opportunity to be creative in your treatment of a situation that you
think should be changed. Your piece should be 4-5 pages.
1. First, think of something that annoys or angers you. It can be a serious
national or social issue or a situation that you have to deal with in everyday
life. Swift wrote as he did because he was deeply enraged by what he saw
taking place. His essay captures that rage. The best essays will focus on
some issue that deeply affects you. If you don’t care, the essay will show it.
2. Swift’s proposed cannibalism because he felt that England was already
“devouring” the Irish politically and economically. In a sense, physically
consuming children was just a logical extension of what Britain had been
doing to Ireland already. Like Swift, create a proposal that is completely
outrageous but which nonetheless has a logical connection to the situation or
issue it purports to improve. That is, whatever solution you come up with
must be an extension, and an absurd exaggeration of what is already taking
place. This is what will help you to create irony.
3. Write your proposal. Structure and format your essay EXACTLY like
Swift’s:
• title your essay A Modest Proposal;
• create a subtitle...

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|1 |What can I find out about this topic? |To conduct exploratory research and building up background knowledge to get an overview |
|2 |How can I break this topic up into sub-topics? |To get more in-depth knowledge of the topic |
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|3 |What are the key words and issues? |To identify key issues that stem from this topic |
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| | |Tip: use a search engine and note down recurring words from articles, commentaries and |
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| | |Hint: these issues are likely sources for essay question formulation |
|4 |What are the:...

...﻿name here
Professor name here
College composition
September 23, 2013
The perfect league of Pokémon
One could say that there are a lot of Pokémon, and it would be nearly impossible to classify such a wide variety of creatures. Truth is there are hundreds of Pokémon in the virtual game world. But there are five major types of Pokémon that you need to have to successfully beat the game, the Fire, Electric, Ghost, Grass and Water type. If you can properly capture and train these five types of Pokémon, you shouldn’t have any problem getting all 8 gym badges and taking on the elite-four.
To start out with the perfect Pokémon roster, I would like to break down the fire type. The fire creatures, like Growleth or maybe even a Charzard are probably one of the most powerful of all Pokémon. It’s the strongest against grass and earth types. Now don’t get me wrong just because they are one of the strongest doesn’t mean they don’t have any weaknesses. Any Pokémon that has any type of water based moves will deal the most amount of damage towards fire, but that’s not its only weakness, electric types such as Pikachu or the legendary Zapodos can and will destroy fire Pokémon. If you plan to achieve the goal of having all 8 gym badges I would recommend the Charzard for your fire type
The Flashy and bright, electric monsters are to me like a...